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A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience with the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body. He details his resolve to re-enter service after a grueling recovery and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
2) Grant
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"Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most complicated generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil...